petebsen



(No Model.)

K. P. C. PETERSBN. MAGHI'NB FOR GORKING BoTTLBs.

Patented Sept. 5, 1882.

unv

UNITED STATES PATENT UFFICE.

KARL Fi O. PETERSEN, OF HAMBURG, GERMANY.

MACHINE FOR CORKING BOTTLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 263,721, dated Septemberl 5, 1882, Application fileo February 6,1`882. (no model.)

To all 'whom it may conce'n:

Be it known that I, KARL FERDINAND UHaIs'rIAN PETERSEN, a subject of the Emperor of Germany,resid`ing at Hamburg, in the German Empire, have invented a newand useful Machine for Corking Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in bottlecorking machines in which the cork, before cntering the bottle, is com pressed by means of a horizontal guided die; and the objects of myimprovements are, first, to arrange the main moving parts within a hollowcolumn; second, to keep the bottle to be corked tightly in its proper position; third, to reduce the weight of the machine by employing springs instead of the generally-used countei-weights and, fourth,to compress'the cork and to drive the same without injury into the bottle-neck. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevat-ion of 4the entire machine, and Fig. 2 a sectional side elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section of the cork-compressor, and Fig. 4 a Vertical section of the foot of the machine.

Similarletters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

A is a hollow column, wherein the 'sliding piece B, provided with two pistons, a' and az,

at the top and at the bottom, can be moved up and down'by means of the lever O; The

latter, which has its fulcrum at the bracket D,

is provided at that part which reciprocates inside of the column A with a roller,c, for which a slit is arranged in the sliding piece B. This sliding piece B is connected with the wedge- ``shaped block d in the foot of the machine, by

means of the connecting-rod b, which is surrounded by the spiral spring f. The Iatter serves to raise the sliding piece B when no power is applied to the lever The bottle-stand E is screwed in the wedge g. The lower part of the screw-bolt e serves as a guide for` the spring h, which raises the block g.

Between the two mentioned blocks 'd and g is arranged the loose wedge k in the foot .of the machine, which can be moved horizontally.

A bottle, when placed at the stand E, is

raised at first only by the tension of the spring h against the month z' of the cork-compressor F. By pressing down the handle of lever O the sliding piece B is lowered, and therewith the block d, which pushes the wedge lc toward the block g and 'causes the stand E to be kept in the proper position corresponding with the height of lthe bottle.

The cork-compressor F is composed of the nearly-semicircular die m', the, two Vertical rollers l, and the die m2, fastened to the sliding piece m, which is pushed toward the compressing-rollers l by means of the Vertical sliding piece B. The latter is provided for this purpose with a curved slit, a, which guides the roller a, attached to the horizontal sliding piecem. Heretofore such guiding-slits formed un inclined straight line, by which arrangement the compressing-die is pushed forward the die' m2 toward the rollers Z, because the roller a of the horizontal sliding piece m slides inside the curved slit a of the Vertical sliding piece B, the latter being connected with the lever O by means of the roller c. When the rod b, attached to the sliding piece B, is lowered far enough, the wedge d slides down and pushes the wedge k toward the wedge g, the latter being arrested therewith in its proper position, in so far as not to allow any more lowering of the bottle-stand E. Iu conse-` quence the bottle is fixed in the right position for receiving the cork, which, after being compressed, as above described, is pushed in the bottle7s neck by means of the stamp 0, attached to the Vertical sliding piece B.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I desire to claim and secure by Letters Patent is-- 1. In a corking-machine, the combination of the column A, containing the main movable parts of the machine, with the sliding piece IOO Q W372i B, provided with the pistons a' and a, subthe rollers lwith the dies m' and m2, substam stantiaily as described. tially as described.

2. In corking-lnachines, the combination of 5. In corking-machines, the combination of 15 the level' G, the siiding piece B, and the rod b the horizontal sliding piece m with the Verti- 5 with the spiral spring f, substantiaily as set cal sldiug piece B, reciprocating inside the forth. hollow column A, and provided With a curved 3. In coming-machines, the combination of s1it,'a, substantially as and for the purpose the bottle-stand E with the Wedges 61,76, and g, specified.

the rod b, with nuts p,the sliding piece B, and KART, FERDINAND CHRISTIAN PETERSEN. Io the lever O, substantially as and for the pur- Witnesses:

pose specified. J. M. BAILEY,

4. In corking-maehines, the combination of ALEXAND'ER SPEOHT. 

